Re: [gnome-love] Tinderbox (automatic daily build) for GNOME

["Luis Villa" <luis villa gmail com>]

On 3/31/06, Frederic Peters <fpeters entrouvert com> wrote:
> Luis Villa wrote:
>
> > Luis (who will try to write up a requirements description for
> > tinderbox tonight or tomorrow morning)
>
> Will be interesting to read.  In the meantime Jerome, Guillaume and I
> worked on "distributed jhbuild".  There are two parts:
>
>  - adding new command and frontend to jhbuild, thanks to its
>    architecture it was very easy and all the changes are put in two
>    files (commands/autobuild.py and frontends/autobuild.py)
>
>    This is similar to the tinderbox target but doesn't produce local
>    HTML files; instead it submits its result to a central server (each
>    start/end build/module/phase sends an xml-rpc message).
>
>  - having this centralisation server so that data can be gathered and
>    presented in useful ways, for both random developers and module
>    owners.

Whoa. This is awesome!

> As I wrote the first part was very easy and is almost done.  It lacks
> some error checking (in order to continue building in case of server
> failure) and they are certainly local parameters that would be useful
> to submit (jhbuild moduleset, default automake/gcc/python version...).
>
> As for the server there is a preliminary version in test, it lacks
> many features but extending will be easy.
>
> I'll try to publish this in a repository real soon now; for the moment
> it runs as http://jhbuild.bxlug.be/.  I'll be happy to share any code
> with interested persons.

I have no time for this this weekend, but... damn. And next weekend
I'm traveling. Grr. Maybe by the one after that :)

> I probably won't make it to guadec but who knows...

You should, that would rock.

Luis